« In the Seventies, sex and power entered fashion photography through the lens of Helmut Newton. With our August Issue we pay homage to the photography master with a story of women empowerment, because this time behind the lens there is a woman, Collier Schorr, a pioneer of the use of fashion photography to subvert gender and identity conventions. »

I can’t with this 2018/2019 logic.
So nudity and sexuality are only valid when it’s done by a woman...I guess it doesn’t matter that they are following a man’s aesthetic, that she is wearing clothes (at least shoes and belt) designed by a man, in a house created by a man...
I also have to highlight that the editor of the publication is a man and the owner of the group is a man.

They should have put her in one of MGC’s lazy feminist designs for Dior to make it full circle.

The fact that people have to justify in a extended paragraph why they put a woman half naked in the cover is annoying.

The real justification is that Stephanie Seymour can only do sexy/Half naked shoots. That’s basically everything she has done in the last decade.
She has an amazing body tho. I hope she is wearing Alaia in this.

I do think the general quality of VI has declined undeniably, but they've always had hit and miss cover shots even back in the 'heyday'. So maybe there's some redeeming shots in the accompanying spread?

I like this! Way better than the last month’s offering from VI. I love the colors and I think this is very suitable for August and a breath of fresh air considering last few months’ dull covers.
On the other hand, the text/font is too hard to read on the first cover. Took me a while to understand what it says.

« In the Seventies, sex and power entered fashion photography through the lens of Helmut Newton. With our August Issue we pay homage to the photography master with a story of women empowerment, because this time behind the lens there is a woman...

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Are Vogue Italia aware that Helmut Newton's wife is a successful photographer in her own right, who sometimes posed in front of his camera, while creating a body of work behind her own camera? She edited his work, she probably inspired a lot of it, sometimes she even stepped in for Newton on shoots he was hired for.

Why not celebrate something like that, instead of twisting yourself into a pretzel coming up with reasons why Stephanie Seymour and Claudia Schiffer are stripping off for the front of your magazine?